Around 30 Australians are diagnosed with melanoma every day and more than 1,200 die from the disease each year. While small amounts of ultraviolet (UV) radiation are required for the production of vitamin…

For more than a billion years, plants have had an internal dialogue, and we are just beginning to learn the words. The unusual dialogue occurs between two compartments within plant cells – the nucleus…

A good yarn: chromosomes are shared out to dividing cells by mitotic spindles.
Triesquid13 août 2013

Cells use a tiny machine called the mitotic spindle to share genetic material equally between cells when they divide. But when this process goes wrong it can lead to cancer. For many years we’ve been interested…

RNA is similar to DNA in lots of ways. But an extra oxygen atom makes all the difference.
Image from shutterstock.com26 juin 2013